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Some LLL.ca were auctioned in myid, pool and sibername in July 2008, here are some of the results as posted on dnforum:

tus.ca - $297
xcc.ca - $121
smb.ca - $655
otk.ca - $259
tbb.ca - $615
tlx.ca - $101
bjp.ca - $250
ewq.ca - $101
ghj.ca - $101
glq.qc.ca - $2250
hjk.ca - $101
lkj.ca - $100
zgs.ca $240
jph.ca $300
vvm.ca $152

Prices have been raising quickly during the last months. The better ones seem to get good prices in $200-300 and all premium letters fetch $600+. The recent sale of gmx.ca for over $30K must have helped too.

I still have a few LLL.ca’s at bargain prices here - these are going quick, so hurry up!

How do I make money domaining?

Well by most part it comes to:

1. know the market well
2. buy low
3. sell high

Domaining is a strange market. There are the end user prices and the market/reseller prices for any domain - both can vary a lot and there is a lot of money to be made on these differences.

However the risks are high, so you have to know the market very well. Being able to appraise a domain as close as possible for any specific marketplace is among the most valuable skills for a domainer. read more »

I’m reducing my .ca portfolio and selling some 3 letter and 3 number names at very attractive prices.

Having some of these in your portfolio is a must for any Canadian domainer. The LLL.ca were all registered last year and since then the prices have been growing steadily. Canadian domains can only be registered by Canadian residents.

gmx.ca was sold for 20,000 euros last week!

First person to post sold gets the name/s, payment expected within 24 hours.

019.ca
027.ca
028.ca read more »

Villas.com Sold for 305k Euros on sedo, $480 USD in one the largest sales this year.

In other sales, yestarday’s 20K euro sale of gmx.ca was one of the highest for a Canadian domain. Gmx.com is a huge site with alexa 123, so they are most likely the buyers. More .ca sales:

Afternic:
adultdate.ca $1,000
airfaredeals.ca $500
teas.ca $650
naturalfoods.ca - $190.50

bad.ca is currently auctioned at sedo with $2,550 high bid

Few top .me auctions are ending soon: read more »

SS.tv appears listed in sedo recent sales for $21500.

Reminds about the story with SS.com, which was previously reported to have been sold for a hefty amount, but the sale didn’t go through.

Either way it’s a pretty decent amount for a .tv domain.

There were also some nice hyphenated sales:

sugar-bear.com $788
ice-rink.com $840
organic-spices.com $825
venetian-blinds.com $900

Here is the recent registrations stats for End of June 2008, or the latest data available. Top 3 tlds, .com, .de and .cn make up over 100 million domains, .net pushed to the 4th place.

We can see an enormous growth in .cn registrations, but this is mostly due their extremely low price. Many sites offer Chinese domains for just $0.13, yes, 13 cents only!

.co.uk is now slightly above .org and with UK pound going strong unlike the US dollar, the recent week’s sale of Phones.co.uk for $345k and LegalJobs.co.uk for $40k in addition to the previously reported sale of Cruises.co.uk for $1.1. Million comes to show how big the .co.uk tld is.

Apotheke.eu (”pharmacy” in German) sold for $81K last week and as the EU expands and grows tighter we can expect the .eu names to grow as well.

.asia is the new kid on the block and while many consider this new extension completely useless, there was one good sale in dnjournal last week: LasVegas.asia for $30k.

The Montenegro Times reports:

30,000 applications have arrived to date for the registration of Montenegrin Internet domain .ME, the domain company have announced.

The company announced that the next round of registration, functioning on a first-come, first-serve basis, would start on July 17, during which all available domains would be awarded to the first bidders that meet required conditions.

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Myid published a list of .ca domain for the next auction, which starts in about 8 days. Quite an impressive one this time:

 2-3 characters
1.     666.ca ($1751 - $2500)
2.     JFK.ca ($1001 - $1750)
3.     SNN.ca ($251 - $500)
4.     TNN.ca ($251 - $500)
5.     War.ca ($1751 - $2500)

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The recent dnjournal report featured many high value .ca domains sales from myid auctions.

CV.ca $54,977
Income.ca $26,242
Diploma.ca $17,999
Pharmacies.ca $15,663
Eyeglasses.ca $11,410
ZZ.ca $9,959
STD.ca $4,149
LoansCanada.ca $3,112
MontrealMortgages.ca $2,624
AccountingJobs.ca $2,438
Enjoy.ca $1,817
VancouverTravel.ca $1,816
WebTemplates.ca $1,559
QuebecHomes.ca $1,556 read more »